Lorena Lozano and Juanjo Palacios
21 November 2016 – 02 March 2017
Lorena Lozano is an artist and researcher, she works in artistic creation connecting knowledge and methodologies of art and science. She has a degree in Biology (University of Oviedo, 1998) and in Environmental Art (Glasgow School of Art 2007). She has recently completed her thesis on the relationship between art, science and society (University of Oviedo, Dept. of Art History and Sociology). She was a founding member and coordinator of ecoLAB, an experimental laboratory in Art, Ecology and Open Electronics (LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijón 2011-12). Since 2012 she directs the platform Econodos. Ecología y comunicación and develops, among others, the Herbarium project in the rural area of Fundación Cerezales Antonino y Cinia, León.
www.lorenalozano.net www.econodos.net
Juanjo Palacios is an artist and composer living in Gijón. Interested in listening as a way of knowing and experiencing our environment, his practice explores environmental sound paying special attention to unattended or unnoticed sound phenomena. Palacios’ work includes installations, compositions, performances and curatorial work.
In 2009 he founded Mapa Sonoru, a project that aims to discover, preserve and disseminate the sound heritage of Asturias. Since 2011 he runs the label La Escucha Atenta dedicated to the edition of works based on field recording, and between 2015 and 2019 he has been co-director of the Aula de Paisaje Sonoro at the University of Oviedo, whose main objective was to raise awareness about the relevance of the sounds around us in our lives.
Juanjo has presented his work at Museo Reina Sofía, Fundación Juan March, Matadero, Madrid; Museo de Arte Abstracto Español, Cuenca; LABoral, Gijón; Fundación Cerezales Antonino y Cinia, Cerezales del Condado; Oficina Cultural de la Embajada de España, Washington D. C; Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago; Museo Tamayo, Mexico; Instituto Cervantes, Warsaw; Konstapoteket, Stockholm; Instituto Cervantes, Berlin; Convent de Sant Agustí, Barcelona; Centro de Arte La Regenta, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria; Museo de la cerámica de La Rambla, Córdoba; and Centro Niemeyer, Avilés; among others. Palacios’ sound works have been released on labels such as La Escucha Atenta, Audiotalaia, Green Field Recordings, Auriculab and Linear Obsessional Recordings.
www.juanjopalacios.com
Project in residence
Diálogo Social
In a scenario in which heavy industry as a city model gives way to culture as capital, this project gathers different voices involved in the social dialogue in Europe. The artists, during their production residency, will make a composition from excerpts of interviews conducted by Mona Aranea -during her doctoral research- to different agents of the metal industry in Spain, Belgium and Germany.
The result will be formalized in a sound installation as a form of data visualization, a polyphony of the world of industry that manifests the difficulties of finding a single voice and a consensus. The aim is to offer an artistic view of the world of industry and to open up new channels for the dissemination of academic research as processes of knowledge transfer.
The exhibition will be complemented by a panel discussion to be held on March 3 at 6 pm.
